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MangyTiger
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04-28-2005 7:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 58 by Chiroptera
04-27-2005 7:44 PM

Re: EvC Forum Finally Switches to Daylight Savings Time
I'm pretty sure that GMT is a colloquial expression for Universal Coordinated Time
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More historical significance* than colloquial (according to Kernighan and Ritchie in their book "The C Programming Language" about C and the C standard runtime library). That's why C has a function called gmtime that returns a time value in Coordinated Universal Time.
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It is true that GMT/UTC doesn't vary (although the time in Britain changes from it by an hour in the Summer - we call it BST for British Summer Time)
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* The historical significance is that us Brits invented a standardised time first and it took the rest of the world a while to catch up
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The Tigers roared in Dublin - and I was there.
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